The Massachusetts Audubon Society's Bird-Lists 



THE Massachusetts Audubon Society continues to develop in its members 

 a practical interest in birds by supplying them with blanks on which 

 to record the species observed during the year in Massachusetts. The 

 ten best lists received by the secretary of the Society for the year ending December 

 31, igo8, were made by the following members: Lidian E. Bridge, West Med- 

 ford, 219 species; James L. Peters, Jamaica Plain, 218 species; Barron Brainerd, 

 Brookline, 211 species; Richard M. Markle, 187 species; Joseph Kittredge, Jr., 

 179' species; Charles Schweinfurth, 142 species; Anna K. Barry, Dorchester, 

 138, species; Richard L. Creesey, 137 species; Samuel Dowse Robbins, 121 spe- 

 cies; Bertha Langmaid, 121 species. The two lists first mentioned are published 

 herewith. 



List of Birds observed by 

 Lidian E. Bridge, in Mass., 

 from January 1, 1908, to 

 January 1, 1909. 



List of Birds observed by 

 James L. Peters, in Mass., 

 from January 1, 1908, to 

 January 1, 1909. 



Name of Species 



Locality 



Holbcell's Grebe 



Horned Grebe 



Pied-billed Grebe 



Loon 



Red-throated Loon 



Black Guillemot 



Brunnich's Murre 



Razor-billed Auk 



Pomarine Jaeger 



Kittiwake 



Great Black-backed Gull. . 



Herring Gull 



Ring-billed Gull 



Laughing Gull 



Bonaparte's Gull 



Common Tern 



Arctic Tern 



Roseate Tern 



Least Tern 



Wilson's Petrel 



Gannet 



Double-crested Cormorant. 

 American Merganser. 



Nahant 



Marblehead . . . . 

 Middlesex Fells. 

 Marblehead . . . 

 Marblehead . . . 

 Marblehead . . . 



Nahant 



Nahant 



Ipswich 



Ipswich 



Nahant 



Medford 



Nahant 



Naushon 



Ipswich 



Naushon 



Naushon 



Naushon 



Nantucket 



Ipswich. 

 Ipswich. 

 Newton. 



Red-breasted Merganser \ Marblehead 



Hooded Merganser 



Mallard 



Black Duck 



Red-legged Black Duck 

 Green-winged Teal .... 



Blue-winged Teal 



Pintail 



WoodjDuck 



Redhead 



Scaup Duck 



Middlesex Fells. 



Newton 



Middlesex Fells. 

 Middlesex Fells. 



Boston 



Middlesex Fells. 

 Middlesex Fells. 

 Ponkapog 



Marblehead 



Date 



Jan. 4 

 Jan. 6 

 Oct. 24 

 Jan. 6 

 Jan. 6 

 Jan. 6 

 Dec. 28 

 Dec. 22 

 Aug. 23 

 Oct. 7 

 Jan. 4 

 Jan. 2 

 Oct. 5 

 July 12 

 Aug. 28 

 July II 

 July II 

 July II 

 July 26 



Nov. 7 

 May 19 

 Mar. 12 

 Jan. 6 

 Nov. 15 

 Mar. 4 

 Jan. 5 

 Jan. 5 

 Jan. 6 

 Sept. 25 

 Oct. 25 

 Aug. 8 



Jan. 6 



Locality 



Nahant 



Lynn 



Randolph . . . 

 Swampscott . . 



Nahant 



Marblehead . 



Rockport 



Nahant 



Boston 



Boston 



Boston 



Wood's Hole . . . 



Ipswich 



Wood's Hole . . 

 Wood's Hole . . . 



Chilmark 



Chilmark 



Nahant Bay. . . . 



Ipswich 



Nahant 



Brookline 



Marblehead . . . 

 Middlesex Fells. 



Brookline 



Boston 



Jamaica Plain . 



Boston 



West Tisbury . . 

 Cambridge . . . . 



Randolph 



Edgerton 



Lynn 



Date 



Feb. 8 

 Jan. 4 

 April 10 

 Jan. 4 

 Nov. 28 

 Jan. 4 



Dec. 28 



Jan. I 

 Jan. I 

 Jan. I 

 Jan. I 

 Aug. I 

 Sept. 12 

 Aug. I 

 Aug. I 

 Aug. 31 

 Aug. 3 

 June 25 

 Oct. 24 

 Oct. 12 

 Mar. 7 

 Jan. 4 

 Nov. 21 

 Mar. 7 

 Jan. I 

 Jan. I 

 Jan. I 

 Aug. 4 

 Oct. 21 

 April 3 

 Dec. 30 

 Feb. 8 



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